setting objects to Nothing

[louby]

hi

i am creating an new object every time and then at the end of
what i am doing i then set it to nothing


set obj = new COMobj

set obj = nothing

but this seems to be leaking / increasing the memory
does this nothing statement actually work - does it destroy
the obj or is there another way of doing this


thanks
Louby

[gaffa]

You're doing it right.

The question is, does the object that is being set to nothing do it's own memory cleaning? ie: when the obj_Terminate event fires, is it cleanijng up any objects that it might be holding?

- gaffa

[jim mcnamara]

For example -
Unless you're at sp5 in VB 6.0 the MSChart control leaks memory like a sieve.

The answer depends on what object you're referencing, not that you personally are writing poor code.

[reeset]

I guess I have two comments. First, when you set an object to nothing, memory and system resources are not immediately released. The reason is that VB does a lot of garbage collection that you, the programmer, do not see, and sometimes it just takes VB a while to clean up the object resources. Second, setting an object to nothing doesn't release all system resources until the variable falls out of scope. So if your object is a global variable, even after it has been set to nothing, the variable will still retain some resources.

Hope this helps.